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Monday, September 17, 2012

The power of positive napping

This shot comes from a series of pictures of school classrooms all over the world taken by Julian Germain. It's shot in Taiwan. After the kids have had lunch they just put their heads down on the desks and have a half-hour nap.

I was in Japan once on a long coach journey with a load of teenagers and young adults. I turned round from staring out of the window to see that they were all asleep. I was very envious. Presumably this is a Far Eastern thing.

6 comments:

I worked with Japanese engineers on my last project and they always had forty winks for half an hour or so after lunch. Not surprising really considering they worked from 6am till at least 8pm six days a week, sometimes seven.

When I worked in Hong Kong the local staff used to do this every lunchtime like clockwork - eat their rice then put their heads down on the desk. I tried it a couple of times but I just used to wake up at 1.30pm feeling groggy and like I'd just got out of bed again. But for the Chinese it was ann accepted fact that a xiuxi was good for you - just as they believed in drinking warm water, avoiding 'hot' foods like peanuts and tomatoes, wearing an extra jumper and never sitting in front of a fan (certain death).